Ruprecht Heppendorf

Ruprecht Heppendorf (15 April 1868-27 August 1943) was a General in the Imperial German Army and the Reichswehr during World War I and the German Revolution.

Biography
Ruprecht Heppendorf was born in Grimma, Saxony, German Empire in 1868, and he served as a cavalry officer in the Imperial German Army for decades. At the start of World War I, he held a colonel's rank, and he rose to the rank of General by the war's end, commanding troops on the Western Front of the war. In 1919, during the German Revolution, he commanded the 18,000-strong II Corps in Bavaria, and he crushed the uprising of the Munich Soviet on 26 October 1919. Heppendorf retired after the end of the revolution, and he died in 1943.